Barack Obama was a guest at the 1991 wedding of ABC senior foreign correspondent and vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz, The Daily Caller has learned. Obama and groom Julius Genachowski, whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission, were Harvard Law School classmates at the time and members of the Harvard Law Review.

After TheDC made preliminary inquiries Monday to confirm Obamas attendance at the wedding, ABC leaked a pre-emptive statement to liberal-leaning news outlets including Politico and The Daily Beast Tuesday, revealing what may have been internal network pressure felt just days before Raddatz was scheduled to moderate the one and only vice-presidential debate Thursday night.

Both Politico and The Daily Beast jumped to ABC and Raddatzs defense. The Huffington Post, another liberal news outlet, joined them shortly thereafter, while calling unusual ABCs attempt to kill the story before it gained wide circulation.

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On Monday evening ABC spokesman David Ford grudgingly confirmed Obamas attendance at the wedding, after shielding Raddatz in August

Genachowski, according to numerous reports on FR and elsewhere, got his secretary from “Free Press”, a notorious marxist organization that developed the totalitarian concept of “net neutrality”. Forget the professor’s name but I think he still teachs at the Un. of Wisconsin. A hardcore marxist most of his life. McReady or something like that.

Also know that several other reds were involved with the
net neurality issue at the FCC. Might even include Van Jones.

I don’t care if Obama attended his wedding or not. It’s the fact that he picked a far-left FCC chairman that bothers me. He who controls the media controls the people.

Good point. However left-leaning they are, these professional journalists all care about their reputations and being an obviously biased moderator for some nebulous short-term advantage would certainly not help them in the long run.

Besides, even if she wanted to help Biden (and indirectly, Obama), there is only so much you can do for an obvious idiot without being considered an idiot yourself.

Let Biden be Biden and ...Obama is in big trouble.

And to think he is only one heartbeat away from being President of the United States; there has just got to be a better way to select these office holders.

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posted on 10/10/2012 1:46:38 AM PDT
by Captain Rhino
(Determined Effort is the hammer that Human Will uses to forge Tomorrow on the anvil of Today.)

Ryan could, and should, throw challenges at Biden to throw him off his studied talking points. If Biden keeps repeating himself there will be no out and the public will scoff at him like they did at Obama. I think Ryan will do a fantastic job of showing our country who the dynamic duo really are.

The Veep used to be the guy who lost the Pres. election. Under those rules McLame would be Veep. I think they changed it because it gives a lot of people a lot of incentive to off the Pres. Cuts both ways!

Of course, the big joke in 2008 was whether or not Obama would tap Hillary as his VP choice. Probably didn’t for two reasons: 1) the Clinton co-presidency, and 2) Hillary’s limitless capacity to take any measure necessary to further her or Bill’s ambitions.

Calling her for Secretary of State was a brilliant move to keep her busy (and her mouth shut) and guarantee her behavior. After all, bad as Barry is, who would want to report to Joe Biden?

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posted on 10/10/2012 3:23:45 AM PDT
by Captain Rhino
(Determined Effort is the hammer that Human Will uses to forge Tomorrow on the anvil of Today.)

Its not the fact that Obama was in attendance at her wedding, normally I wouldnt even care, I mean so what, he was at her wedding, doesnt mean she cant be impartial, but its the fact that the media is trying to cover it up which means something may be up here

It's not like he was at her wedding because he was a cousin's date. Obama was college buddies with her husband. That should be a disqualifier. Imagine the media reaction if a moderator turned out to be a personal friend of Romney.

Sounds like the story is to divert attention from the stuff you mention. If people just think the story is about a wedding attendance decades ago, they’ll blow it off as nothing, not looking deeper to the real scandal....

Joe Biden debates like a champ. Ryan will have his hands full. Ryan is up for it and brilliant, but it's not in the bag.

Excellent points! The worst would be a dressing down of Ryan by a man that lost his wife and one year old daughter in a car crash 40 years ago. Joe is not as easy target as everyone seems to think he is. Ryan needs to keep this debate about Obama and his record. If he does a good job at that, Joe might be agreeing with him by the end of the debate.

I seem to recall in Biden's debate with Sarah, he referenced walking into a restaurant and chatting it up with the locals. As it turned out, the establishment went out of business during Clinton's 1st term, maybe even earlier.

Biden often tries to come across as some folksy local-boy-who-made-good, but it's all phony!

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